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By Dawnielle Floyd |Staff Writer|
Beatles producer dead at 90
George Martin was announced dead earlier this week at the age of 90, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Martin produced many of the Beatles’ classic discography.
Former drummer Ringo Starr tweeted, "God bless George Martin. Peace and love to Judy and his family, love Ringo and Barbara."
The cause of his death has not yet been released.
Rolling Stone bassist diagnosed with prostate cancer
Bill Wyman, former bassist of The Rolling Stones, has revealed his current battle with cancer via Twitter.
Wyman tweeted that he expected to make a full recovery.
He is currently undergoing treatment, seeing that … [Read more...] about Poppin’ Newz

By Brian Chidueme |Staff Writer|
After the success of the recent 54th Grammy Awards, two trending topics on social networks caught many people by surprise.
Statuses and tweets such as “Chris Brown can beat me up any day,” and “Who is Paul McCartney?” bombarded Twitter and Facebook.
Both of these topics were in response to Paul McCartney’s well-received performance and Chris Brown winning ‘Best R&B Album’ for his 2011 album “F.A.M.E.”
At first glance, these two trending topics could have been taken as a joke, until users from around the world were outraged to see that these were actual tweets from real users.
Social content website Buzzfeed.com was able to grab a lengthy … [Read more...] about Idiocy in 140 characters or less